The GTC main axes servos and control system

Suárez, M.; Rosich, J.; Ortega, J.; Pazos, A.
Referencia bibliográfica

Advanced Software and Control for Astronomy II. Edited by Bridger, Alan; Radziwill, Nicole M. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 7019, pp. 70190J-70190J-12 (2008).

Fecha de publicación:
8
2008
Número de autores
4
Número de autores del IAC
4
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0
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Descripción
The GTC azimuth and elevation axes control systems employ large custom direct-drive motors operated by means of embedded fully-digital current loops. A high-performance position loop has been developed based on sinusoidal encoder feedback with interpolation error compensation. Real-time servo feedback and trajectory tracking is implemented by object-oriented software components at CPU-level which trigger encoder sampling, interpolate the remote CORBA demands and perform high-frequency setpoint streaming for the servo controller.